Baltimore City police are searching for a man who they said killed a 2-year-old boy on Monday morning.

Authorities said the boy, identified as Marlo McFadden, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital after he was found to be unresponsive by his grandmother at a home in the 1600 block of Mountmor Court.

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Police said they're searching for Damond Stansburry, 21, who was charged with first- and second-degree murder, assault, reckless endangerment and child abuse resulting in death.

According to charging documents, the toddler's grandmother said the boy had fallen off the bed he'd been sleeping in with two other children around 5:30 a.m. Monday. She said she tried to revive him but couldn’t, so she called 911. Marlo was taken to Hopkins for treatment, but he died.

An autopsy showed the boy's injuries weren't consistent with a fall and that he suffered multiple injuries to the body and head, including bruising to his eyes, heart, lungs and an adrenal gland, and his brain had hemorrhaged. The medical examiner ruled he died from blunt force trauma.

The boy's grandmother, as well as two other people at the home, told police Stansburry wasn't home at the time of the incident, but one of the people later admitted he was there but had left, police said.

Police interviewed two other children who were in the home. The charging documents showed those children told them that Stansburry hit Marlo a lot and that he had hit the boy in the head and body before he was taken to the hospital.

The boy's grandmother later admitted to detectives that Stansburry was always mean to the child and had shoved him. Charging documents show the victim's mother, Cara Schaffer, told police Stansburry had abused her son at least 10 times in the past by punching him in the body.

Schaffer has an 8-month-old daughter with Stansburry. Stansburry's relationship to the victim is still unclear.

Anyone with information on Stansburry's whereabouts should call police.

Stay with WBALTV.com and 11 News for more details as they become available.